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People want cheaper stuff but they don't think through the consequences of their actions.
When I was a kid, say around BW 1965 (Before Walmart) there were zillions of little stores around, each one catering to a specialty. A men's clothing store for men, an appliance store for appliances, etc...
And there were repair shops. When your (made in Chicago) toaster broke, you took it to the fix-it shop and you paid the nice, talented man to repair it and you took it home and used it.
Now, when your (made in China) toaster breaks, you throw it away (in the overflowing landfill) and buy a new one. How long does it last? If you are lucky, a few months. I bought one a few years ago and it was a POS, you had to hold the handle down while it toasted. I finally beat it to death on the driveway..
I still have a NICE, HEAVY, stainless steel toaster, made in the 60's, that I would LOVE to repair. I know how to repair it. I know exactly how to repair it. But I can't. Why? Because they don't sell parts to repair stuff anymore. THAT pisses me off. I can repair ANYTHING if I can get the parts. My dad was a Radio/TV repairman then an Mechanical Engineer in the 50's and 60's and I have his talent for repairing anything broken, no matter what it is.
So with all this cheap, unrepairable CRAP, they bleed you to death. You have to buy new crap over and over and over again, without end. The days of owning something that you can pass on to your kids are GONE.. Hell, you can't even leave furniture to them, that fscking sawdust pressboard crap should be outlawed.
They've forced people into an endless loop of consumerism. The corporations are the parasites and we are the hosts. Like ticks, they suck the blood out of us, but like all parasites, they suck the blood until either they die or the host dies. They don't care about striking a balance because they know they may be out of business next week, so they suck hard and fast to get as much as they can before they are smacked down.
Big business cares not at all about their customers, not one iota. They care about self enrichment only and if they have to crush the skulls of a million babies to make a higher profit margin, they will do it with glee and joy in their hearts.
I wouldn't have a problem with Chinese or Mexican crap being in the stores, IF they also would offer the choice of an American made product right next to it, even at a higher price. I would buy the American made product 100% of the time. It's wrong to sell out your country and people just for the sake of GREED..
My political compass point to ----> Realist
Re:Yeah, an we feed the beast that will bite our h
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I would rather put a pistol to my head..
Re:Yeah, an we feed the beast that will bite our h
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In the Year 2020
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"Loss of jobs doesn't mean we've permanently lost wealth, it just means people must figure out where they fit in the new economy."
You tell that to all the newly unemployed people that were just permantely fired because their plant closed down because the fat cats on Wall Street decided they could enrich themselves even more by firing workers making $10 an hour and replacing them with workers that make $1 a day, if they are lucky. Some of the workers are political prisoners. Yes, prison labor..
You tell the man or woman just fired that they "just have to figure out where they fit in" as you say and you may get your face punched in.
Couple the massive outflow of jobs with the massive inflow of immigrants (legal and illegal) an you've got a recipe for economic disaster.
"It is better for Americans to purchase from Americans, even if the things purchased cost more.
If we purchase a ton of steel rails from England for twenty dollars, then we have the rails and England the money. But if we buy a ton of steel rails from an American for twenty-five dollars, then America has both the rails and the money." Abraham Lincoln
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"The biggest trend identified in the latest report is the economic and technological rise of Asia."
China WILL bite us on the ass. It's only a matter of time. We are enriching our enemy. We do business with them so the capitalists can stuff more money in their already fat pockets as they undermine the very economy that is making them fat and rich. What will they do then? They are rotating the wealth around. China will become what we WERE and ameriKans will be doing slave labor to build cheap crap for the rich Chinese..
I know several retiree age people that simply gave away their computers in frustration.
Most of them are not tech savvy and can barely understand what they are doing, email and browsing baffles them, forget anything beyond that.
One guy I know in his 70's has problems every time he turns his computer on. He's terrified to open email now and refuses to use it. So much the better I suppose, that probably saves him a lot of trouble. Win 98 and AOL dialup. And to him, it's a magic box.
My dad had total hell with windows until I switched him to Linux. I put him on Mandrake at first but it was flakey. I then switched him to Suse and his computer problems are so trivial as to not be worth mentioning. It's now only things like "How do I do XYZ?" and I say "click this, open that....." No real problems anymore.
My dad insulated the walls of his garage with Styrofoam with a foil backing. His 900mhz phone doesn't work in the garage now. He tried running a wire from inside the garage to outside of the garage thinking it may carry the signal, but that didn't work very well. He tried moving the base station to the upstairs of the house but the sheet metal roof blocked it from that angle too.
MOST new homes are now constructed (around here) with that foil backed styrofoam. Seeing the trouble it made with a 900mhz phone, I would think it cause just as much trouble for other signals. It's solid so I would think no wavelength should be able to penetrate it except by sheer brute force, IE a "hot" signal.
it may byte you in the ass.. I guess I need to build a screw around machine. I have so much trying beta on my production machine. I get up each day and tell myself, "Well now, everything is working fine. Let's fix that!"...
I make it a point to curse the company, the big shots, their kinfolks, pets and homelands, all the children they may ever have and their children, etc...
I never call anywhere just to say "Hi! I'm so pleased with your product/service that I just wanted to call and say thanks!", when I call anywhere about something, I"m pissed and I make sure they are bloody well aware of it..
Like anything will change. But it does feel good to let them know how I feel about their crappy, offshored/outsourced product/service...
I'm talking about pop-ups and links in email messages and junk like that. I know a lot of old folks that fall flat for phishing scams over and over, no matter how many times you tell them not to click the damn things.
The ULTIMATE cheap bastard says: If the case is small enough you can get a pair of trashed pantyhose from the wife and pull them over the case. Cut a hole where the PS fan exhausts and seal around the cut out to the case with duct tape.
Looks like hell but super cheap, easy to clean or cheap to replace either way. Keeps almost all types of dust out..
I too am a Suse 9.2'er. I've dabbled with just about all of them, being that I have a LOT of computers to play with.. Suse is my first and only choice though.
Yes, I tried Linspire, when it was Lindows. My complaint with them is, lax security, IP theft and GPL violations..
I'm sorry, but Linspire does not get people off of Windows, "Billy Bob" doesn't see or comprehend anything below the surface, they see and use M$ apps and the disease continues. To a Linspire user, it's still an M$ world as far as they are concerned.
But of course these are the people that download everything to their desktop, log in as administrator, with no passwords, use IE and OE and click everything they see..
Really, home computer users would be better off if their boxes were appliances and locked down hard, like a toaster or a TV set, it does certain things only and can't be tampered with by anyone other than a serviceman. 95% of the problems home users suffer could be eliminated this way. In other words, weld the hood shut.
I hate the thought, but most people are not qualified to operate a computer. Most people have no business even touching one.
Sorry, that one won't fly. Linspire is grabage, worse than pure M$. With it's glaring security failures and it running already flakey M$ apps, it's doomed to fail. I hope Linspire goes the way of the Dodo and soon. I know people who tried it and were so turned off by that they said they will never again even consider trying any other Linux distro. It's such a poor product that the company should be sued and the big shots do the perp walk..
"I guess they feel that the DMCA is too lax for them to be allowed to carry out RIAA-style raids on college students."
I'm not a college student and I don't engage in mainstream music/video swapping, I go for the indie stuff, BUT, if some yahoo decides they want to raid me, it WILL be the last raid that group ever conducts because they WILL meet up with the fangs of a very large and overly protective German Shepherd and massively overwhelming firepower. RIAA, say hello to Mr. 12 guage...
Anyone remember Stirling powered cars? They've been around for years, the Air Force used them, the USPS used them, etc... Not to mention, the Stanley Steamer....
"You might want to check out Anarchy Online [anarchy-online.com]. It's a sci-fi based MMORPG, and they're currently offering a free client download and free year worth of online play. You don't even have to give them a credit card number."
Looks neat. Does it run on Linux? Can't find any system requirements, read all through the faqs..
You technodweebs that just have to have George Jetson crap get what you ask for.
I carry a TELEPHONE, that's all it does. I don't need to carry a frigging computer around on my belt, or play games, that's stupid. You have to have all this techno crap with you every waking second and now you have created your own personal hell.
My typical phone conversation. (ring ring): Hello? caller: My computer is messed up, help me. me: What's your address? caller: 1234 blah blah street. me: I'll be right there. Bye.
typical total call time, under 60 seconds.
The number of times I've ever wanted to play a game, snap a photo, surf the web, send a TM using my cell phone? ZERO..
The number of times my cell phone ever failed me? ZERO...
The kid across the street from me showed me his cell phone, the games it can play, pictures of his GF's tits, surfing the web in a 25x10 browser. Whoopty-doo....
Bzzzzzt! Road Runner and SWB throttle usenet bandwidth when you access usenet through road runner or SWB systems.
You should not have to go to a third party for full speed access. I PAY $55 a month for RR, I'm penalized an extra $10 a month because I do not subscribe to cable TV, normal access is $44.95 a month here.
At $55 a month I expect a LOT... I'm friggin paying for it, I should get it. I should not have to pay a third party for something I'm already paying for. My contract says "unlimited access" and "high speed"....
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People want cheaper stuff but they don't think through the consequences of their actions.
When I was a kid, say around BW 1965 (Before Walmart) there were zillions of little stores around, each one catering to a specialty.
A men's clothing store for men, an appliance store for appliances, etc...
And there were repair shops. When your (made in Chicago) toaster broke, you took it to the fix-it shop and you paid the nice, talented man to repair it and you took it home and used it.
Now, when your (made in China) toaster breaks, you throw it away (in the overflowing landfill) and buy a new one. How long does it last? If you are lucky, a few months. I bought one a few years ago and it was a POS, you had to hold the handle down while it toasted. I finally beat it to death on the driveway..
I still have a NICE, HEAVY, stainless steel toaster, made in the 60's, that I would LOVE to repair. I know how to repair it. I know exactly how to repair it. But I can't. Why? Because they don't sell parts to repair stuff anymore.
THAT pisses me off. I can repair ANYTHING if I can get the parts. My dad was a Radio/TV repairman then an Mechanical Engineer in the 50's and 60's and I have his talent for repairing anything broken, no matter what it is.
So with all this cheap, unrepairable CRAP, they bleed you to death. You have to buy new crap over and over and over again, without end. The days of owning something that you can pass on to your kids are GONE.. Hell, you can't even leave furniture to them, that fscking sawdust pressboard crap should be outlawed.
They've forced people into an endless loop of consumerism. The corporations are the parasites and we are the hosts. Like ticks, they suck the blood out of us, but like all parasites, they suck the blood until either they die or the host dies. They don't care about striking a balance because they know they may be out of business next week, so they suck hard and fast to get as much as they can before they are smacked down.
Big business cares not at all about their customers, not one iota. They care about self enrichment only and if they have to crush the skulls of a million babies to make a higher profit margin, they will do it with glee and joy in their hearts.
I wouldn't have a problem with Chinese or Mexican crap being in the stores, IF they also would offer the choice of an American made product right next to it, even at a higher price. I would buy the American made product 100% of the time. It's wrong to sell out your country and people just for the sake of GREED..
My political compass point to ----> Realist
I would rather put a pistol to my head..
"Loss of jobs doesn't mean we've permanently lost wealth, it just means people must figure out where they fit in the new economy."
You tell that to all the newly unemployed people that were just permantely fired because their plant closed down because the fat cats on Wall Street decided they could enrich themselves even more by firing workers making $10 an hour and replacing them with workers that make $1 a day, if they are lucky. Some of the workers are political prisoners. Yes, prison labor..
You tell the man or woman just fired that they "just have to figure out where they fit in" as you say and you may get your face punched in.
Couple the massive outflow of jobs with the massive inflow of immigrants (legal and illegal) an you've got a recipe for economic disaster.
"It is better for Americans to purchase from Americans, even if
the things purchased cost more.
If we purchase a ton of steel rails from England for twenty
dollars, then we have the rails and England the money. But if we
buy a ton of steel rails from an American for twenty-five dollars,
then America has both the rails and the money."
Abraham Lincoln
HELLO!
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What color is the sunrise on your planet??
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos
"Government type: Communist state"
In China the sunrise is RED....
"The biggest trend identified in the latest report is the economic and technological rise of Asia."
China WILL bite us on the ass. It's only a matter of time. We are enriching our enemy.
We do business with them so the capitalists can stuff more money in their already fat pockets as they undermine the very economy that is making them fat and rich. What will they do then?
They are rotating the wealth around.
China will become what we WERE and ameriKans will be doing slave labor to build cheap crap for the rich Chinese..
I know several retiree age people that simply gave away their computers in frustration.
Most of them are not tech savvy and can barely understand what they are doing, email and browsing baffles them, forget anything beyond that.
One guy I know in his 70's has problems every time he turns his computer on. He's terrified to open email now and refuses to use it. So much the better I suppose, that probably saves him a lot of trouble. Win 98 and AOL dialup.
And to him, it's a magic box.
My dad had total hell with windows until I switched him to Linux. I put him on Mandrake at first but it was flakey. I then switched him to Suse and his computer problems are so trivial as to not be worth mentioning. It's now only things like "How do I do XYZ?" and I say "click this, open that....." No real problems anymore.
My dad insulated the walls of his garage with Styrofoam with a foil backing. His 900mhz phone doesn't work in the garage now.
He tried running a wire from inside the garage to outside of the garage thinking it may carry the signal, but that didn't work very well.
He tried moving the base station to the upstairs of the house but the sheet metal roof blocked it from that angle too.
MOST new homes are now constructed (around here) with that foil backed styrofoam. Seeing the trouble it made with a 900mhz phone, I would think it cause just as much trouble for other signals. It's solid so I would think no wavelength should be able to penetrate it except by sheer brute force, IE a "hot" signal.
it may byte you in the ass..
I guess I need to build a screw around machine. I have so much trying beta on my production machine. I get up each day and tell myself, "Well now, everything is working fine. Let's fix that!"...
Yeah, but the REAL question is, who's been feeding it?
It's obviously grown up a lot since you lost it...
Ooooooh........ Ahhhhhh.......
there's no atmosphere (so to speak) to burn up in.
I make it a point to curse the company, the big shots, their kinfolks, pets and homelands, all the children they may ever have and their children, etc...
I never call anywhere just to say "Hi! I'm so pleased with your product/service that I just wanted to call and say thanks!", when I call anywhere about something, I"m pissed and I make sure they are bloody well aware of it..
Like anything will change. But it does feel good to let them know how I feel about their crappy, offshored/outsourced product/service...
I'm talking about pop-ups and links in email messages and junk like that. I know a lot of old folks that fall flat for phishing scams over and over, no matter how many times you tell them not to click the damn things.
I'm not saying there's no market or place for a pre-installed version of Linux, I just have complaints with Linspire.
The ULTIMATE cheap bastard says:
If the case is small enough you can get a pair of trashed pantyhose from the wife and pull them over the case. Cut a hole where the PS fan exhausts and seal around the cut out to the case with duct tape.
Looks like hell but super cheap, easy to clean or cheap to replace either way. Keeps almost all types of dust out..
I too am a Suse 9.2'er. I've dabbled with just about all of them, being that I have a LOT of computers to play with.. Suse is my first and only choice though.
Yes, I tried Linspire, when it was Lindows.
My complaint with them is, lax security, IP theft and GPL violations..
I'm sorry, but Linspire does not get people off of Windows, "Billy Bob" doesn't see or comprehend anything below the surface, they see and use M$ apps and the disease continues. To a Linspire user, it's still an M$ world as far as they are concerned.
But of course these are the people that download everything to their desktop, log in as administrator, with no passwords, use IE and OE and click everything they see..
Really, home computer users would be better off if their boxes were appliances and locked down hard, like a toaster or a TV set, it does certain things only and can't be tampered with by anyone other than a serviceman. 95% of the problems home users suffer could be eliminated this way.
In other words, weld the hood shut.
I hate the thought, but most people are not qualified to operate a computer. Most people have no business even touching one.
Sorry, that one won't fly.
Linspire is grabage, worse than pure M$.
With it's glaring security failures and it running already flakey M$ apps, it's doomed to fail. I hope Linspire goes the way of the Dodo and soon. I know people who tried it and were so turned off by that they said they will never again even consider trying any other Linux distro. It's such a poor product that the company should be sued and the big shots do the perp walk..
"I guess they feel that the DMCA is too lax for them to be allowed to carry out RIAA-style raids on college students."
I'm not a college student and I don't engage in mainstream music/video swapping, I go for the indie stuff, BUT, if some yahoo decides they want to raid me, it WILL be the last raid that group ever conducts because they WILL meet up with the fangs of a very large and overly protective German Shepherd and massively overwhelming firepower.
RIAA, say hello to Mr. 12 guage...
NOT buy or use such trash. Buh bye Intel!
Anyone remember Stirling powered cars?
They've been around for years, the Air Force used them, the USPS used them, etc...
Not to mention, the Stanley Steamer....
Nothing new to see here, move along...
http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/openbb/read.ph p?TID=391
"You might want to check out Anarchy Online [anarchy-online.com]. It's a sci-fi based MMORPG, and they're currently offering a free client download and free year worth of online play. You don't even have to give them a credit card number."
Looks neat. Does it run on Linux? Can't find any system requirements, read all through the faqs..
Damn!
ZERO comments and they already folded!
You technodweebs that just have to have George Jetson crap get what you ask for.
I carry a TELEPHONE, that's all it does. I don't need to carry a frigging computer around on my belt, or play games, that's stupid. You have to have all this techno crap with you every waking second and now you have created your own personal hell.
My typical phone conversation.
(ring ring): Hello?
caller: My computer is messed up, help me.
me: What's your address?
caller: 1234 blah blah street.
me: I'll be right there. Bye.
typical total call time, under 60 seconds.
The number of times I've ever wanted to play a game, snap a photo, surf the web, send a TM using my cell phone? ZERO..
The number of times my cell phone ever failed me?
ZERO...
The kid across the street from me showed me his cell phone, the games it can play, pictures of his GF's tits, surfing the web in a 25x10 browser. Whoopty-doo....
sure says a lot for IE security, doesn't it?
Bzzzzzt! Road Runner and SWB throttle usenet bandwidth when you access usenet through road runner or SWB systems.
You should not have to go to a third party for full speed access. I PAY $55 a month for RR, I'm penalized an extra $10 a month because I do not subscribe to cable TV, normal access is $44.95 a month here.
At $55 a month I expect a LOT... I'm friggin paying for it, I should get it. I should not have to pay a third party for something I'm already paying for. My contract says "unlimited access" and "high speed"....